Pratyaksh Srivastava

Rural India | Environment | Foreign Affairs |

Worked at @CSEINDIA - @down2earthindia | @IndianExpress | @GaonConnectionE

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

I hope there's still snow in Siberia by the time I fulfill my dream of travelling to #Russia.

#ClimateActionNow #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #environment

[Extreme Temperatures Around The World @extremetemps]

Record event in #Siberia in its worst heat wave in history.
Dozens of records fell, the most important all time records today:
39.6 Baevo
38.5 Barnaul
38.1 Ordynskoe tie
37.3 Novosibirsk
37.2 Toguchin
36.4 Mariinsk
36.1 Masljanino tie
35.6 Tomsk tie
35.4 Tjuhtet
35.1 Bogotol

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

Long Live #PrabirPurkayasth
Long Live #NewsClick

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

Open letter by 73 former civil servants demanding accountability from Union education minister #DharmendraPradhan. #CJP #NEETPaperLeak #CBSE

[Sumanth Raman @sumanthraman]

He is posting this on the day the US has killed three Indian sailors. #Justsaying

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

The drowsy, apolitical youth that can't name more than 5 political parties is slowly turning 30 with the realisation that they ought to be men and women with a livelihood.

Days of parental benefits, WiFi, free AC, and waking up in the afternoon after sleeping at 6 AM are over.

[Nidhi Jamwal @JamwalNidhi]

We rightfully express panic over rising heatwaves in our cities. But we’re completely blind to a silent crisis brewing in our oceans—MARINE HEATWAVES. Why should you worry?

Watch full video on @TMigrationStory’s YouTube channel: https://t.co/M1JSIheK16

#WorldOceansDay @RockSea

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

Humans have a knack for ignoring the answers lying around while looking for convenient questions.

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

@DOCTORATLARGE Or legalise weed. That would be the final brahmastra in winning over the youth.

[G Sampath @samzsays]

I am hearing "Rahul Gandhi lacks gravitas". Can somebody please rank India's top 10 politicians in descending order of gravitas? Curious to know who all are thought of as having 'gravitas'.

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

The great Indian collapse is not entirely because of evil politicians.

Practical people, reasonable people, smart people, polite people, well mannered people, hygienic people who didn't want their hands dirty — are all complicit.

[Gargi Rawat @GargiRawat]

No drinking water in Devprayag?! From the land where rivers spring, a drinking water shortage #Uttarakhand

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

It's not just skilled workforce. India is facing an acute shortage of semi skilled workers like plumbers, electricians, mechanics and carpenters.

Biggest population and yet little talent or skill to be employable. How does that happen?

Cheap WiFi, cheap content, doomscrolling.

[Manmohan Bahadur @BahadurManmohan]

OH!!!! COME ON!!!!!

IAF to transport question papers???

Don't tell me our civilian system has collapsed so much?

#NEET_SCAM

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

@eyerock3671 @PaulGoldEagle Yes, I am sure about the lifespan in the 1800s. Please check it yourself too.

Not an ideal thing to do to estimate public lifespans by referring to the Presidents' lifespans.

Lifespan has increased by at least 3X in last 200 years.

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

Then why was the average lifespan barely 45 years some 200 years ago when toothpaste, wifi, phones, 5G, foam mattress, processed food, sedentary lifestyle and micro plastics didn't exist?

Important to take health advice from health professionals and not "from Twitter".

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

🚨 THE LIVER REGENERATES IN 6 WEEKS. YOUR STOMACH LINING REPLACES ITSELF EVERY 3 DAYS. YOUR ENTIRE SKELETON REBUILDS IN 10 YEARS. SO WHY ARE YOU STILL SICK?
Your body is a self-healing machine. It was designed to regenerate. Every cell has a blueprint for perfection. Your DNA is not a death sentence — it is a repair manual.
So why does chronic disease exist? Because something is PREVENTING the repair cycle. Every single day. On purpose.
⟁ The regeneration timeline:
— Stomach lining: 3-5 days — Skin: 2-3 weeks — Liver: 6 weeks (can regenerate from 25% of its original mass) — Red blood cells: 120 days — Skeleton: 10 years (complete replacement) — DNA repair: continuous — thousands of errors corrected per cell per DAY
You are literally a new person every 7-10 years. Every atom replaced. Every cell renewed. Disease should be IMPOSSIBLE in a body this capable.
Unless the inputs are designed to overwhelm the repair system.
⟁ The assault — 24 hours a day:
Morning: Fluoridated water (pineal calcification, thyroid disruption). Toothpaste with sodium lauryl sulfate (hormone disruptor). Cereal with glyphosate residue and synthetic vitamins your body cannot absorb.
Commute: EMF radiation from phone pressed against your head. 5G towers every 500 meters. Stress hormones flooding your bloodstream from traffic and news alerts.
Work: 8 hours under fluorescent lights (wrong spectrum — disrupts circadian rhythm). Sitting (lymphatic system stagnates — toxins accumulate). Processed lunch with seed oils that cause systemic inflammation.
Evening: Alcohol (destroys gut lining). Screen blue light until midnight (suppresses melatonin — blocks cellular repair during sleep). Microplastics in dinner from heated plastic containers.
Sleep: WiFi router running all night beside your bed. Memory foam mattress off-gassing formaldehyde. 6 hours instead of 8 (repair cycle incomplete).
Every hour. Every input. Designed to keep you in a state of chronic low-grade damage that your body can never fully repair.
⟁ The profit model:
A healthy human generates $0 for the pharmaceutical industry. A chronically ill human generates $10,000-$100,000 per year. For life.
The system does not profit from your death — you stop paying. It does not profit from your health — nothing to sell. It profits from the MIDDLE — sick enough to need medication, alive enough to keep buying it.
Diabetes: managed, never cured. $327 billion/year. Heart disease: managed, never cured. $219 billion/year. Depression: managed, never cured. $326 billion/year. Cancer: treated, rarely cured. $208 billion/year.
$1 TRILLION per year — dependent on you staying sick. No industry destroys its own revenue stream. They will never cure you. Curing you is bankruptcy.
⟁ What actually heals:
— Fasting — autophagy (cellular self-cleaning) activates after 16-24 hours without food. Your body eats its own damaged cells. Free. No prescription. — Sunlight — produces vitamin D, nitric oxide, serotonin, and activates immune function. Free. Exposed skin. 20 minutes. — Grounding — direct skin contact with Earth neutralizes inflammation through electron transfer. Proven in peer-reviewed studies. Free. — Clean water — spring or properly filtered. Hydrates cells. Flushes toxins. Costs pennies. — Sleep — 8 hours in complete darkness. Growth hormone peaks. DNA repair maximizes. Free.
Everything that heals you is free. Everything they sell you keeps you sick. This is not coincidence. This is architecture.
Your body is not broken. It is under siege. Remove the siege — and watch what it can do.
~SG
@q_newspatriot

[Nidhi Jamwal @JamwalNidhi]

@GuerrillaSahafi @ramji3789 Credit to you @ramji3789 that you did not take Prat’s suggestion/ direction to your ego. I know journalists who, when they are asked to fact-check or rework their copy, prefer to resign than to learn and grow. Because they feel they are ‘award-winning’ journalists

[Nidhi Jamwal @JamwalNidhi]

The beauty of handwritten notes… you can open an old diary and relive the past moments and soak in nostalgia ❤️.

Also, it makes you realise how far you have come in life, and in a good way. I have all my spiral bound notebooks of the past 20 years.

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

@ramji3789 @JamwalNidhi जी, याद है मुझे वो स्टोरी। :)

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

Since 1991, aspiration to be richer has fueled #India. No matter what, the coming year has almost always been better than last year. So far so good.

History, Geography, Economics, Environmental Science and Political Science have their own way of teaching their worst students.

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

@JamwalNidhi @ramji3789 Found my notebook from 2021-22! Seems like notes taken during an editorial meeting on a report on pulse exports. Nothing beats the zeal of reporting on rural issues. It's 3 AM at night and here I am sifting through the pages of the notes taken during the time we worked together.

[Pratyaksh Srivastava @GuerrillaSahafi]

@JamwalNidhi @ramji3789 Haha! बिल्कुल! आभार कि आपके नेतृत्व में कॉलेज के दिनों के बाद दोबारा नोट्स कॉपी को आखिरी पन्ने तक भर पाया। कॉलेज के बाद बिना खोये किसी क़लम की रिफिल ख़त्म होगी, ये आज के digital notes के समय में हो पाना लगभग असंभव था। Wish old school journalism makes a comeback! Miss those times.